XOM
Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +50.5% · range 106.13–171.47
The Businesswhat the company reports
Business & cash flow
| FCF / revenue | 16.0% |
|---|---|
| Gross margin | 29.8% |
| ROIC | 11.1% |
| Forward P/E | 15.0 |
No annual filing with both total assets and a cash-flow figure is cached for this name, so neither validated measure can be computed. FCF/revenue is shown instead, which is not the validated measure.
Price vs Earnings growth
Price has run ahead of forward EPS growth by 13.1pp
Confidence 95.0/100
Drivers
| Forward EPS growth | +37.4% |
|---|---|
| Trailing price return (1y) | +50.5% |
| Forward P/E compression | +27.2% |
Figures
| Trailing EPS | 7.76 |
|---|---|
| Forward EPS | 10.66 |
| Trailing P/E | 20.59 |
| Forward P/E | 14.98 |
Revisions
Stable (-0.7%, 10 dates)
Takeaway Price has moved further than forward earnings growth currently justifies — worth weighing against the rest of the entry case.
The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑
Price Levels
| Strategy | Fair Value Anchor |
|---|---|
| Reference band | 149.08 — 160.55 |
| Protective stop | 149.65 (Structure, 3.3% risk) |
| Support | 151.43 (2 touches, 5.5% away) |
| Resistance | — (— away) |
Takeaway The shares are about 5.5% above 151.43, a price buyers have stepped in at before. There is no ceiling to point to, because the stock is trading where it has not traded before and nobody has sold it at these levels. That floor has held 2 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 3.3% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.
Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.
Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)
| Daily cloud | Price ABOVE the cloud | periods 7/21/42 (80% of classic 9/26/52) |
|---|---|
| Lines | Tenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL |
| Cloud event | Fresh up breakout 2d ago |
| Cloud thickness | 61% percentile |
| Chikou span | Above price from 26 periods ago |
| Weekly cloud | Price ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored) |
Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 148.31 to 154.89. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.
Trailing returns
| 21 days | +10.1% |
|---|---|
| 63 days | +6.1% |
| 126 days | +5.4% |
| 252 days | +50.9% |
| Below 252d high | 6.8% |
Trend context
| Position | Far above trend |
|---|---|
| Extension | Extremely extended |
| Trend slope | Rising |
| Direction of travel | Diverging from trend |
Takeaway Extreme upside extension is still moving away from fair trend; chase risk is elevated.
Volatility
| State | No recent compression |
|---|---|
| Current band width | 10.1% of price |
| Recent tightest | 10.1% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 74.0% of its history) |
| Expansion since | 1.00× |
| Band | 146.52 — 162.13 |
Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 10% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.
Historical trends
History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.
Repair Pathway
- Nearest Trigger Relative momentum leadership holds already satisfied Track 2 pathway: relative momentum leadership is already present; maintaining it supports upgrade pressure · Broadly stable
- Trigger 2 EMA20 continuation hold already above Track 2 pathway: price is above a rising EMA20; sustained hold would support momentum continuation · Broadly stable
- Trigger 3 +DI back above -DI repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Deteriorating
- Trigger 4 Volume confirmation above 1.5x +0.50x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Deteriorating
- Trigger 5 Relative strength stabilisation state change relative momentum rank supports RS stabilisation · Broadly stable
Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑
Insider activity
| Activity | No filings in the window |
|---|---|
| Buy filings | 0 |
| Sell filings | 0 |
Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.
Volume confirmation
| Volume-price trend | Above its signal line |
|---|---|
| Confirmation | Strong |
No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.
Takeaway More shares change hands on the days this stock rises than on the days it falls. That is what you would expect to see if the rise is being driven by real buying rather than drifting up on a thin market.
Options Positioning
No binary-event flag
XOM: no binary-event flag. Near IV 28%, far IV 27% (ratio 1.02), implied move 3.5%.
| Implied volatility | 28% near (9d) · 27% far (65d) |
|---|---|
| Term structure | 1.02× near/far |
| Historical volatility | 25% |
| Implied vs historical | 1.13× |
| Implied move | ±3.5% by 2026-08-21 |
| Implied move vs ATR | 0.52× |
| Skew | Put Skew (1.24×) |
| Call wall | 170.00 (+6.4% away) |
| Put wall | 145.00 (-9.2% away) |
| Gamma pin | 170.00 |
Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 3.5% in either direction by 2026-08-21.
Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.
Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑
Relative Rotation
Repair Attempt
Rotation health 45.3/100; Mixed Rotation.
| Rotation health | 45.3 |
|---|---|
| Rotation strength | 61.2 |
| Leg | Quadrant | RS-Ratio | RS-Mom |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stock vs sector | Weakening | 106.1 | 82.6 |
| Stock vs SPY | Weakening | 103.3 | 90.0 |
| Sector vs SPY | Weakening | 101.7 | 90.8 |
Direction of travel: South-West / deteriorating rotation
Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.
News Headlines
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Detailed Scoring
Positive signals
- Piotroski F-score 5/9 (+5.0)
- Altman Z-score 7.38 (+6.0)
- Gross margin quality: 29.8% (+1.0)
- ROIC quality: 11.1% (+1.7)
- FCF margin quality: 16.0% (+4.8)
- Gross margin improving by 7.2 pts (+1.0)
- FCF margin improving by -0.2 pts (+-1.0)
- High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.052) (+2.0)
- Accrual ratio improving (-0.05 -> -0.05) (+2.0)
- Track 2: MACD histogram state (0.30) (+5.0)
- Track 2: MACD line/signal trend quality (+15.0)
- Track 2: positive MACD trend regime (+10.0)
- Track 2: MACD slope expanding (+5.0)
- Track 2: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.08 (+8.0)
- Track 2: relative momentum rank 0.84 (+11.3)
- Track 2: price above EMA20 by 3.9% (+3.2)
- Track 2: EMA20 slope expanding 1.7% (+4.6)
- Track 2: MACD histogram acceleration 0.28 (+4.0)
- Track 2: VPT strength 3.53 (+12.0)
- Track 2: price above EMA50 by 6.3% (+5.0)
- Track 2: EMA50 slope improving 2.0% (+4.7)
- Track 2: Bollinger position 0.85 (+6.8)
Negative signals
- Track 2: weak volume for momentum setup (0.54x average)
- Relative strength versus sector deteriorating
- Track 2: bearish DI spread (-1.7)
- Track 2: weak/falling ADX (29.9, falling)
- Track 2: Bearish MACD divergence
- Track 2: RSI deterioration/overheating 55.7, 5-day change -6.0
- ROIC improving by -1.9 pts (+-2.0)
- Track 2 structural exemption: structural score 20.5/100 below the 25 quality floor; this is an unowned speculative candidate, so the universal SELL gate was skipped and the Track 2 momentum/RRG grid was allowed to evaluate instead. Structural quality here is weak by design for this kind of candidate -- treat any resulting BUY as higher risk than a Track 1 signal.
Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.